“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”-Immanuel Kant The ethics of Aristotle taught young men his virtues as a moral code and as key to happiness until 529 C.E., when Byzantine Emperor Justinian I converted the…

Fiction — “No adultery is bloodless. ”— Natalia Ginzburg Afterward, they lay coiled in each other’s arms. Downstairs, the band shrieked a bad cover of a James Brown number that competed with a chugging window air conditioner. Aaron nuzzled Doris’ neck, just below an ear. …

I see cars, jammed side by side as far as my restricted view permits me to see through a narrow-slatted window in the rest home rec room. A perfect light, light from a photographer’s dream world, contrasts the cars in gleam and shadow. In such light, I see how the…

I suppose you’ve heard about what that Bauer boy did with the Waters girl that got him sent to prison. Yes? Then you must know that Gloria Waters and Nick Ricci became a couple while Conrad Bauer was put away in LaGrange prison for statutory rape. …

Fiction — The cleanup of a city street grid three blocks long and two blocks wide littered with the remains of the annual Saint Patrick’s Day Parade and the street party fell on Jacob Cross. “Commercial/Industrial Cleaning’ said the bold font on his business card. A city street sweeping machine had cleaned…

Fiction — June 1969 I packed my honorable discharge papers into my duffel bag and said goodbye to the armored vehicles and artillery pieces that littered Fort Knox. A Greyhound bus got me to Hamilton, Kentucky via a change in vehicles in Louisville. As the bus crawled through hills and forests and…

Fiction — Word went out that Stoney was the guy spilling his guts out to the feds. Planting the story about Stoney was a dangerous move because we didn’t want anyone getting itchy and doing something rash, like arranging a beating or worse, so, a few of us hung close to Stoney…